Christmas.

Every year we wait for that time of the year to celebrate one of our favorite holidays - Christmas. While we cherish the wonderful holiday activities our family and friends do, this Christmas, you may want to try a couple of new ways to celebrate the occasion and add to your fun. 

Do you love spending your Christmas with your traditional family dinner but want to try some new delicacies? Skip the turkey or move it to a Christmas Eve meal, and try new delicacies for Christmas Day. You may find some change, but with these new dishes, the push-back won’t last long.

If, at all this Christmas, you find yourself on a tight budget, try making a game out of exchanging lovely gifts and filling stockings. Before your family gathering, assign a budget e.g. $10 to each person for a Secret Santa gift exchange. Lifting tight budget strains could be the best gift your family and loved ones give each other.

We have learned in the past few years that there is nothing more important than maintaining good health and strong family ties. This year, instead of focusing on expensive gifts and the trendiest decor, try to spend more effort and attention on your family. Quality time and sweet little gestures triumph all gifts.

That being said, if you want to start a new tradition this Christmas, there’s no doubt that you’ll find perfect Christmas gift ideas from our list of winning ideas to celebrate the holidays.

TOP WAYS TO SPEND YOUR SINGAPORE SUMMER CHRISTMAS IN 2022

1. Binge Watch Christmas Movies

We all remember the Christmas movies we loved and watched growing up. Over the years, more and more movies have been released. Netflix has wholesome family classics such as Love Hard, Holidate, Last Christmas, Spencer, A California Christmas, and many more. The Christmas Chronicles 2 is another movie where Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn return to play Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus to take everyone on a Christmas adventure.

Hulu also has a bunch of LGBTQIA+ movies focused on holidays, with Happiest Season featuring a woman who has a partner to bring home for Christmas. There are also a few stories like The Man Who Invented Christmas that retell the story of Charles Dickens’ efforts to write A Christmas Carol.

Disney+ is another streaming service that airs all your favorite Christmas specials for the entire family to cherish. For example, LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is exactly what its name suggests — Star Wars characters made of LEGO in a brilliant holiday adventure. Moreover, you must not forget High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special, which is also available for streaming.

Even though Christmas is the eve that dominates at this time of the year, the other occasions such as Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, are not forgotten. Movies such as The Night Before feature a Jewish Seth Rogen and loved ones celebrating Hanukkah, and airs on Amazon Prime.

With such a wide selection of Christmas-themed movies, it’d be a delight to curl up on your couch with a pint of Momolato’s Salted Caramel Popcorn and immerse yourself in the shows.

2. Exchange Christmas Cakes With Your Loved Ones

Sure, you can bake your own cake based on your family recipe and savor it as you participate in fun activities. But it’s even more fun to try our new cake flavors, which, you never know, might turn into your next Christmas favorite.

So, try indulging in Momolato’s range of marvelous Christmas gelato ice cream cakes to make your Christmas all the more special. We have something for everyone. That being said, let’s look at some of our gourmet Christmas ice cream cakes to make the best of your celebrations:

The Decadent Chocolate BlueForest Christmas Ice Cream Cake is the pizza of cakes - the cake everyone loves apart from the weird kid who hates chocolate. The cake is curated with intense couverture dark chocolate, blue pea, and ripe berries such as blueberries and raspberries.

The Decadent Chocolate BlueForest cake contains a calm pastel layer of blue pea blueberry gelato ice cream encapsulated within the triple chocolate gelato ice cream, and serves around 4-6 pax. Keeping sustainability at the core of our business, the gelato cakes are placed in recyclable paper boxes. You shouldn’t really miss out on the Decadent Chocolate BlueForest Christmas Ice Cream Cake.

Of all the types of ice cream cakes, this one is made especially for strawberry lovers and makes a stunning Christmas gift.

The Strawberry Shortcake Christmas Ice Cream Cake is a must-try flavor for everyone as it brings two of our favorite things together. It’s made using fresh Korean strawberries, and our homemade strawberry sauce. The cake contains a beautiful pink layer of sweet strawberry gelato ice cream with rich Hokkaido cheesecake gelato ice cream. Plus, who doesn’t love cheesecake ice cream?

Momolato’s Chocolate Hazelnut Ferrero Christmas Ice Cream Cake is to cake what cheese is to pizza and makes a luxurious Christmas gift for Nutella and Ferrero lovers. The cake contains a rich layer of hazelnut chocolate gelato ice cream and is wrapped with decadent dark chocolate gelato ice cream, which makes a marvelous stunner. It’s a great type of cake if you’re having a hard time choosing between Ferrero, Nutella, and Chocolate. With these tasty and beautiful cakes, consider this new way to celebrate Christmas 2022.

3. Pretty Designer Fruit Popsicle Gift Sets

It’s Singapore. If it gets too hot and humid this Christmas holiday season, what’s more exciting than biting into fresh fruit popsicles?

Momolato’s range of healthy fresh fruit designer ice cream popsicles would make beautiful Christmas gifts. Regardless of whether your celebration involves non-alcoholic sodas or champagnes, our designer ice cream popsicles make for amazing cocktail and mocktail additions. 

We also have customized gift options for individuals who prefer to have their own flavors. Let’s take a look at our wide range of ice cream popsicle flavors.

This assorted gift set is our curator and founder Chef Sharon’s personal favorite. It contains nine assorted fresh fruit popsicles that will give a pop of fresh and natural colors to events and parties.

1. Red Watermelon Kiwi (plant-based & vegan) x 03 pieces

2. Mango Coconut Swirl (plant-based & vegan) x 03 pieces

3. Hokkaido Milk Strawberry x 03 pieces

All our products are prepared in a production kitchen where nuts, gluten, and other known allergens may be present. Gelato and popsicles are packed with quality recyclable packaging, keeping sustainability at the core of the business.

Momolato’s Christmas Holiday Popsicle Gift Set consists of 9 pretty designer popsicles, which are specially curated to make the best Christmas gifts this holiday season.

The gift set contains the following:

1. Red watermelon strawberry (plant-based & vegan) x 03 pieces

2. Sea salt blue pea vanilla strawberry x 03 pieces

3. Hokkaido milk strawberry x 03 pieces

All of these products do not contain eggs, gluten, tree nuts, and nuts.

Alternatively, you may consider other ice cream popsicle flavors such as our popular Hokkaido Milk Strawberry Ice Cream Popsicle. This flavor is handcrafted using fresh and ripe Korean strawberries as well as creamy, imported Hokkaido milk. It does not contain eggs, gluten, tree nuts, and nuts.

If you are into citrus flavors, then Mango Passionfruit Strawberry Ice Cream Popsicle is made with you in mind. The flavor is made using juicy and ripe Australian mangoes, tangy Vietnamese passionfruit, and decorated with slices of fresh Korean strawberries. It does not contain eggs, gluten, tree nuts, and nuts.

One of our favorites was a flavor curated for Chinese New Year 2022. It quickly became a mainstay in our online shop. The Young Coconut Mandarin Orange Ice Cream Popsicle is made using sweet, refreshing young Thai coconut water and adorned with slices of fresh mandarin orange. It is plant-based, vegan, and kind. It does not contain eggs, gluten, tree nuts, and nuts.

To browse Momolato’s exclusive and entire range of gelato ice cream flavors, click here.

4. Make an Early Morning Christmas Breakfast

Opening up all your Secret Santa and Christmas gifts would certainly whip up quite an appetite.

But, if you can distract everyone away from their new presents for some time, you won’t have to make breakfast in the kitchen alone on a Christmas morning. Do you have a simple waffle maker or a pan at home? In the spirit of Christmas, make yourself a nice waffle or pancake. We have just the recipe for you.

Ingredients

1 large egg
200g plain flour
15g caster sugar
250g fresh full-fat milk
60g butter (melted and cooled)
9g of vanilla bean extract (optional)
10g coconut oil
Maple syrup (optional)
Chocolate sauce (optional)
Rainbow sprinkles (optional)

Step 1

Melt the butter using a microwave. Crack the large egg into a bowl and whip the egg using a handheld blender (or any other blender). Put in plain flour, sugar, a pinch of salt, fresh milk, melted butter, coconut oil, and vanilla bean extract, and blend to make a smooth batter. Put the batter into the fridge to be chilled for 30 minutes to 2 hours.

Step 2

Heat up your waffle maker or pan. Coat the waffle maker or pan with melted butter. Pour in enough batter to cover your waffle maker. Or if you wish to make a pancake, pour in enough batter for your desired pancake size. Cook for approximately 4 to 5 minutes until the waffles or pancakes look golden-brown in color. Drizzle the waffles or pancakes with either maple syrup, thick chocolate sauce, rainbow sprinkles or all of them. You can also add a scoop of our popular Milo Dinosaur with Marshmallows gelato ice cream or our specially-curated Christmas specials such as Sour Cherry Vanilla Bean or Sea Salt Butterscotch Brownies.

5. Take a Family Christmas Photo to Cherish Forever

Sure, we all walk around with portable cameras in the form of smartphones in our pockets and take photographs of the most random things every now and then — but how often do you actually stop to make sure you capture a photograph with everyone in it, all energized and looking at the camera with smiles at the same time? Probably once or twice every few months?

Jump on the joyous Christmas bandwagon and take this opportunity to take many family Christmas photographs that you’d cherish forever. There are so many places for amazing photos. Check out Orchard Road’s iconic festive Christmas lights and the Great Bay Fiesta at Bayfront as well as the glittering light display at Marina Bay Sands. Go to these places in matching costumes or apparel to make that perfect shot. If you love hanging out in groups, have your good mates over for Christmas Eve slumber parties so you can take more pictures in matching pajamas and props. Get some of our lovely designer popsicles - we know they’d make good props - the sky’s the limit!

6. Send Christmas Gifts to Your Extended Family & Friends

Your Christmas cards might be the only kind of postal mail you send all year, so make sure they’re a little extra this year!

This year, Christmas falls on a Sunday. Most people in Singapore are returning to work on December 27. For your extended family and friends that you may not visit in time, you can send Christmas gifts to convey your love and thoughts. Choose from Momolato’s wide range of extensive cakes, ice cream popsicles, and gelato ice cream flavors along with a DIY greeting card. At Momolato, we have designed a small sticker card just for you. Let us help you pass along a personal note for you.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Rather than playing the guessing game or wondering what your loved ones will use, ask them directly to make a wish list of practical gifts. Gift them gourmet gelato ice cream and designer ice cream cakes or subscribe to a meal kit service to narrow kitchen expenses, or ask them for household tools that need to be replaced to save money and time.

Momolato is the best curator and supplier of fresh, gourmet ice cream Christmas cakes and popsicles in Singapore. Our gelato ice cream flavors are made using only top-notch and fresh ingredients. This makes your Christmas gifts more interesting and exciting than ever!